santa cruz island. >> we're not going to make an attempt with pumps to put it out. >> reporter: 39 passengers and crew on board, 34 presumed dead. >> five people were evacuated aboard a good samaritan pleasure craft. none as the great escape. >> reporter: on board that boat, conception in obvious pain. paramedics treat being him once the boat reached the harbor, then wheeling him off to an ambulance. the coast guard says all five of the boat's crew survived. >> the crew was actually already awake and on the bridge and they jumped off. >> reporter: but the passengers were presumed to be asleep below deck and below the flames. to show how tight it was, what caused the fire a mystery. investigating the case and recovering the bodies now even harder. the coast guard said conception went under near santa cruz island. >> fire department crews were fighting the fire when the vessel shank offshore in 64 feet

of water. >> reporter: rob hayes, abc7 news. >> coming up at 5:00 you're going to hear from a local man who says he was caught on that same boat when it caught fire and sank, pardon me. that is on abc7 news at 5:00. >> hurricane dorian is blasting the bahamas right now. the storm has lost some of its strength but remains a powerful category 4 hurricane. >> if you look at the radar now, the hurricane is barely moving, just spinning over the islands at this point. it is one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the atlantic ocean. when it made landfall with 185 mile an hour winds, it tied a record. >> so the question now is where will dorian head next? florida is already seeing some of the rain bands, but it turns to the north that mutts north carolina and georgia in the path. >> there are millions of people who have now been told to evacuate. >> reporter: dan and ama, here in florida the message from officials is simple.

get your last-minute preparations in today because dorian is coming and you need to be ready for anything. the damage done in the northern bahamas devastating. >> we just pray that we can come out of this once we come out of it with our lives, we're happy. >> reporter: dorian, one of the strongest atlantic hurricanes in recorded history, seemingly sparing nothing in its path. this path of destruction a scary sight for floridians anticipating dorian's arrival. >> you know, we hope for the best, but we have to keep preparing for the worst. >> reporter: so far more than 2 million people along the u.s. coast ordered to evacuate. in georgia and south carolina, lanes on major highways reversed to get everyone inland quickly and safely. >> attention residents. >> reporter: in florida, officers are going door to door in the evacuation zones making sure residents are heeding the

call to leave their homes. >> this is a mandatory evacuation for barrier islands and low lying areas. >> reporter: there are more than a dozen shelters set up across the state and the red cross is reporting thousands of evacuees have already checked in. and for anyone thinking about riding out the storm, here's acting fema administrator peter on gma. >> if you think you're going to tough it out in your home, that's probably the wrong idea if you're issued a mandatory evacuation. don't tough it out, get out. save your life, save the life of your family. >> reporter: and for safety, some county officials here in florida are also activating a curfew starting tomorrow night. warning residents, if you break the law, you will be riding out the storm in jail. reporting from new smyrna beach, florida, breaking news. >> we want to update. there is an update on the fatal diving boat fire. >> ventura county fire department and the vessel assist

organization responded. the coast guard launched aircraft as well as boats and located a vessel that was fully involved in flames in the plats harbor area on the northside of santa cruz island. the crews were actively fighting the fire when the vessel began to sifrnk at approximately 7:20 a.m. this morning. 39 souls were reported to be on board that vessel when it left santa barbara. five victims were subsequently rescued and during the initial response and have been transported to ventura -- were transport today ventura harbor. this particular dive trip that the boat was on was a three-day trip that began august the 31st. it was scheduled to end tomorrow morning. it was advertised as a labor day

weekend north channel islands dive trip. the boat was scheduled to depart santa barbara harbor at 4:00 a.m. on saturday, the 31st, and return on monday, the 2nd, as i say, in the morning. the dive company chartered the boat and the crew from truth aquatics, a santa barbara harbor-based operation that has been in existence since 1974. so far the -- in santa barbara, i am the coroner as well as the sheriff, so our coroner's bureau has been involved in this event because four victims have been recovered thus far as deceased. they have been transported to our coroner's bureau. we can only identify them at this point as two adult males, two adult females. rescue and recovery efforts on the scene have located an additional four victims on the

ocean floor in close proximity to the vessel, and we have dive teams that are in the water as we speak that are working to attempt recovery of their remains. but the boat remains unstable and i'm not sure when we're going to be able to recover those bodies as well as any more that may be within the vessel. the coroner's bureau is responsible for identifying the victims, for notifying the next of kin, and for determining the cause and manner of death. we have asked for assistance due to the sizeable nature of this incident and have received support from the los angeles county coroner's office and from the sacramento county coroner's office as well. the four victims that we have recovered as of now will need to be identified through dna, and

that may take some time. the condition of the remains that are recovered subsequently will determine the speed at which we are able to identify any of the victims. our hearts go out to the families of the victims of this terrible tragedy. we understand the tremendous burden that they are under right now as they wait to determine exactly what happened and what condition and situation their loved ones are in. we will be working diligently to try to get them as much information as possible as soon as possible. we have also set up a family assistance center which is designed to provide specialized assistance to family members of victims of this tragedy. i am going to now turn this over to captain monica rochester of

the united states coast guard, los angeles sector, and she will give you a briefing on the rescue effort that was undertaken this morning. yeah, my name is sheriff bill brown, common spelling. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. i'm captain monica rochester, captain of the coast guard sector of los angeles/long beach. we have been fully involved with this incident since 3:30 a.m. we continue to have coast guard vessels continue our search and lines of santa cruz island.ore we also have our coast guard aircraft that is also engaged and providing cover to ensure that we have the full swath or full breadth of the area to be searched. we have also provided a safety zone which is approximately a mile which provides safety to

the responders so that we don't have interference from other vessel traffic or any other incursion into the area where the incident has occurred. additionally, we have also established a 3,000 foot ceiling for a temporary flight restriction so, again, this is all to protect the first responders. this isn't a day that we wanted to wake up to for labor day and it's a very tragic event. and we will search all the way through the night into the morning, but i think we all should be prepared to move into the worst outcome, but those are our efforts right now and they will continue through the night and into the morning. thank you. >> good afternoon. mark heart wig, h-a-r-t-w-i-g, i'm the warden for the county of santa barbara.

i want to start by telling you that the hearts of this community are heavy as the families deal with this. representing those in the water and on the ground and those that are supporting this incident today and into the future, we are, we are saddened with the families and those that are close to the folks affected by this tragedy. from the fire side, we were -- shortly after the mayday, the peace app, ventura county, was notified by the coast guard. that initiated an immediate response as you i believe heard this morning from the ventura county fire department out of oxnard. they responded with two fire boats. upon arrival at the scene of the incident, they encountered a fully-involved wooden vessel in the waters off of santa cruz

island. they began to extinguish the flames and then notified the county fire department here in santa barbara. we continue, the county fire department continues today. we will offer our expertise in investigations on cause an origin along with the team from the sheriff, sheriff bill brown's office, and then we'll also provide incident support throughout this incident. thank you. >> my name is joyce dudley, d-u-d-l-e-y. i represent the people of santa barbara county, and on behalf of the people of santa barbara county, i want them to understand and everyone to understand how much we understand what everyone is suffering from as a result of

this. people all over the world, and we appreciate those thoughts, and our primary concern are the victims and the loved ones. we will continue to address their concerns as quickly as we can. santa barbara county shares jurisdiction over these waterways and the area around santa cruz island with the u.s. attorney. i have been speaking with the u.s. attorney nick hannah since this morning. we will continue to communicate with each other constantly and to address any jurisdictional concerns, monitor the investigation -- >> if you happen to just be joining us, this is a live news conference we are just listening to out of santa barbara where the sheriff's office was giving an update on the fatal diving boat fire that happened very early this morning. four bodies have been recovered, but more than two dozen people remain missing, so we will keep on top of this. you can always get the latest information on our air as we get new info and abc7news.com. of course you can follow us on

social media as well. we want to talk about the bart construction work that has impacted highway 24 all weekend and it hit a serious snag today. ane took oute per lines and it's had a ripple effect. hundreds of people lost their electricity and highway 24 laz be has been periodically shutdown in both directions. abc7 news reporter melanie woodrow has been following this. melanie, not the best commute for people on this labor day. >> reporter: not the best, but we do have some good news to bring you. first of all, power is expected to be restored to everybody within the next hour, by 5:00 p.m. also take a look, you can see crews have finished their work on these overhead power lines. more good news means no man advertise pat more anticipate the closures for highway 24. after replacing a crane at the lafayette bart station, it hit a power line.

this is the crane bart provided from a previous weekend of work. just before 5:30 this morning, the impacted line came down in the westbound lane of highway 24 which was reopened just before 6:30 a.m. the incident knocking out electricity to more than 700 customers including this lafayette shopping customer. owner joan brisoni. saying no one called her. >> i just arrived and almost had a heart attack. i thought, what's happening? what's going on here? then i found out. >> reporter: as did her tenants, the whole foods using big refrigerated trucks for some of its inventory. pete's giving out free coffee and joe burt shack powering parts of the store with a generator. >> whatever is loaded in the machine, we can't save. >> reporter: pg&e planning to restore power in three stages to limit traffic impacts. closing highway 24 in both directions for 20 minutes at a time, but ultimately only needing two closures to complete the overhead rewiring work. bart spokesperson chris.

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moment shortly after the morning, a woman shot by a stray bullet on east 22nd street in oakland. >> there was some type of dispute, some type of argument that took place up the street between several individuals. someone discharged a firearm. >> reporter: police say one of the bullets hit a 44-year-old woman leaving a nearby home walking to her car. she was taken to the hospital where she died. >> we are presuming she was on her way back to her residence, as she is from oakland, but lives in a different area of the city. >> reporter: when we arrived to that street, investigators were there looking for cameras that may have captured the incident. now, a neighbor tells us it was her neighbor that woke up and called the ambulance, that the woman was shot right here neighbors also say around the corner there was a large wedding reception happening at the same time. we asked people who appeared to live there if the victim was one of their guests, but they declined to comment. >> there was a party going on around the corner. i did see a lot of people and stuff there. so talking with some of the other es are dengts that live

down on the other side, we did discover it wasn't anybody from the neighborhood that was shot, so probably determined it was either somebody coming from the party or somebody driving by. >> reporter: oakland p.d. and crime stoppers say they are investigating. there is a $10,000 award for information leading to an arrest. in oakland, liz kreutz, abc7 news. >> in the south bay police are looking for three men they say were involved in a deadly street race on saturday night. >> as the investigation continues, family members of the two victims wholeheartedly believe there is more to the story. >> abc7 news reporter chris nguyen is on that story. >> reporter: this afternoon a makeshift memorial sits at the site of a devastating crash in san jose. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: right now is what i feel is the pain for the loss, what we lost. >> reporter: a street race turned deadly and it slammed into a tree. the impact so severe it split

the jeep in half. two cousins were killed. both of san jose. >> they were the best men, the best family, the best cousins that you could have. >> reporter: right now police continue to look for the occupants of a gray bmw believed to have been involved in the crash. they say three men got out, looked at the wreckage and then fled the scene. for now the victims' family isn't convinced that street racing was to blame, saying they were only a block away from home. >> i know that they would not risk their lives over some random street race going down across the street. >> reporter: overall, the san jose police officers association says street racing incidents are on the rise. >> it's very important that when they do see something like that that they call immediately so we can try to get officers out to that area and hopefully prevent another tragedy from occurring. >> reporter: and while nothing can bring the victims back -- >> we just want to know what happened. >> reporter: -- family members are hopeful the three suspects

will do the right thing and turn themselves in. memorial services are now being planned for the two victims. anyone with information on this case is urged to call police. reporting in san jose, i'm chris nguyen, abc7 news. >> what a shame. >> yeah. >> let's talk about the weather. the hurricane, of course, is making huge news and causing a lot of concern. >> it is indeed. looks like it's going to turn up along the coast to stay offshore, but still produce tropical storm conditions for much of the atlantic coast. meanwhile here everything is nice and calm. here's a look at live doppler 7. we have mainly sunny skies, a few clouds beginning to develop along the coast line. it's much cooler today than it was this time yesterday. look at the 24-hour temperature change. 13 degrees cooler in santa rosa and novato and 6 to 8 degrees cooler along the coast. we have low clouds beginning to push out over the city. as you can see from sutro tower. 63 degrees in san francisco. 70 in oakland, redwood city 80. 79 in redwood city.

69 in half moon bay. here's advancing clouz from mount tam. 81? santa rosa. napa 78. 76 petaluma. 93 fairfield 90 concord, 83 livermore. we give you this view from the western sky, forecast features will see warm inland conditions tomorrow. gradual cooling will begin wednesday and take cooler weather to all areas. overnight look for, again, some low clouds at the coast, few patches of low clouds on the bay. mainly clear inland. overnight lows will be upper 60s. movement of the low clouds, not much inland overnight. oer the coast and bay. at 5:00 tomorrow morning morning commuters will encounter lingering cloudiness. the clouds will burn back to the coast line by midday. the 12-hour planner looks like this. lingering clouds during the early hours. sunny except the coast by noon. we have the warm up in the

afternoon with a few low 90s in our inland areas. here's a look at the bigger picture for tomorrow. 67 in half moon bay. 71 in san francisco. 77 oakland. lots of inland, east bay areas will top out at the low 90s, 90 santa rosa. 86 napa. 86 san rafael. here is the accuweather seven-day forecast. notice that gradual cool down going into the middle of the week. so wednesday will be a relative liz cool to mild day with the highest inland readings in the upper 80s. temperatures bounce back up a couple degrees on friday, then they go back down again about 2 degrees over the weekend. it's generally going to be a nice steady calm and mild pattern all the way through the weekend and into early next week. warm est day looks like tomorrow. >> okay. >> isn't september weather so lovely? >> it is. let's keep it that way. >> definitely. thanks. all right, the trade war with china is escalating. >> yeah, the latest round of tariffs and the move that could affect just about every american at the end of the year. plus.

>> i'm kate larson in san francisco where acres of montery pines are about to get cut down here in the

you know, they've been standing tall for generations of san francisco ans. now the stand up trees are coming down. >> abc7 news reporter kate

larson has this story from the presidio. >> reporter: these monterey pines have been standing more than 130 years in san francisco. their beginning is rooted in an army major's plans to build a forest in the presidio. their end is about returning to roots that naturally exist in the park. >> i'm all for restoring the presidio back to its natural habitat. >> reporter: noelle has lived near the presidio 20 years. she supports cutting down the trees which the trust says is at the end of their life-span and vulnerable to breaking or falling especially during a winter storm. >> we have concerns on high windy days. i say stay away from the forest because we don't know whether or not there is a safety issue with the trees. >> reporter: the three-acre monterey pine stand is on the trail directly behind the presidio landmark apartments where residents are acutely aware of the tenuous timber. >> the true, made this huge sound, nobody knew what it was. everybody came looking, calling the office. we were frightened. >> reporter: since last month, one of the pines crashed into a

metal gate that borders the property. >> i'm not for taking trees down, but if it's a safety issue, then go right ahead. >> reporter: the pine trees will start coming down this week. the loud and dusty process will take place on weekdays for the next month or so. after the trees have been removed, the presidio trust says they'll be replaced with native plants like oak trees, and ned rally endangered lasingea. several other monterey pine groves in the presidio were removed this summer. reforestation is taking shape and dying trees live on, repurposed as wooden works of art. in san francisco, kate larson, abc7 news. >> abc7 news is committed to building a better bay area, and one thing we focused on is the environment. >> absolutely. a number of dead whales have watched ashore on our beaches. we're going to show you the effort underway to understand what's killing all of these absolutely majestic creatures. >> and new details emerge about the deadly mass shooting in

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>> announcer: now news to build a better bay area from abc7. >> back now to our coverage of hurricane dorian, pictures coming in out of the bahamas and the devastation is widespread. >> the united states could be next with millions of people possibly in the storm's path. abc news reporter elizabeth her

is in florida. what's it like there now? >> reporter: well, right now today was actually quite nice out, sunny and a little breezy and windy at times. the wind is picking up, but it was nice out. people were out strolling along the river here and even fishing. but today they may be able to get away with that because officials have been warning them that this is the last -- this is the day to get your last-minute preparations in because starting tomorrow you will be feeling those effects of dorian, and you need to be prepared for anything. dan and ama? >> about getting out of harms way, people were ordered to evacuate. have you seen a lot of evacuations today? >> reporter: today what i have seen was actually what i just talked about, those last-minute preparations. people were still boarding up their homes and buildings and businesses, rather. but the good news is when i

talked to them, though, they knew to take dorian seriously and they said they just wanted to make sure that they had a home or their business to come back to after the storm. so they were just making sure that everything was secured before taking off. as far as those evacuations are concerned, as you mentioned, those coast at communities up along florida here and georgia and south carolina and also starting tomorrow north carolina, everyone is going to be packing up their belongings and seeking shelter elsewhere. here in florida, i understand thousands of people have sought shelter. and according to the red cross are already at least a dozen shelters are open and there are -- whatever it is you need, they're saying leave your belongings at home and seek shelter here. >> absolutely, be safe. so, is there a deadline for when people should be getting out, elizabeth? >> reporter: right now no. and basically officials are urging and begging residents to

do the rightthing. nw, if you do not go to -- rather, listen to those evacuation orders and ride the storm out in your home, some county officials, they are resorting to curfews. those go into effect tomorrow. and they have actually said if you're out and about when the curfew is in effect, we will arrest you and you will be riding the storm out in jail. so officials are definitely not taking any chances and telling residents, if you stay home, you better stay home. >> yeah, don't go out after it gets too late. >> all right, elizabeth, thank you for that live update. >> an fbi agent said the gunman in saturday's rampage that killed seven people in texas was on a long spiral down before he was fired from his job on the day of the shooting. abc news reporter shelley childers updates us from odessa. >> reporter: one of 15 crime scenes, hundreds of rounds fired, a shooting spree that lasted more than an hour.

>> saturday morning our suspect went to work at journey oil field service. he was there for a short time and was terminated. by his employer. >> reporter: state troopers say they pulled over seth ator for a traffic stop. he allegedly opened file on them with an assault style rifle out his window. ator reportedly took offshooting while driving. among the victims lela hernandez killed outside a car dealership. and a 17 month old hit by shrapnel is expected to survive. >> she's up and smiling and stable. >> reporter: mary granados was alone in her postal service mini van when ator allegedly killed her and hijacked the vehicle. >> i wish i could at least hug her again, give her a kiss, talk to her. >> reporter: with no known motive, officials delving into every aspect of ator's life,

because he fired a gun out his second story window, he also reportedly threatened neighbors with a gun. today we are learning more about the suspect from texas governor greg abbott who said he had a criminal history and he had previously failed a gun purchase background check in texas. and he didn't go through a background check for the gun he used in odessa. and investigators here say it could take days before they unravel the details of the case partly because of the scale of the shooting spree. shelley childers, abc news, odessa, texas. >> china launched new tariffs. they ganim posibegan imposing 1. it came as china ganim posing new duties on crude oil. shoe store owner jennifer lee said the tariffs are making it more difficult for family-owned shops like hers to stay in business. >> it will be hard, especially

in an environment -- businesses outpacing retail business. we kind of see brick and mortar stars not having a bright future at this point. >> according to the peterson institute for international economics, the new tariffs mean 69d% of the products americans buy from china will be subject to import taxes and more on the way. president trump plans to impose tariffs on another $160 billion in imports in december. if that happens, peterson institute said 90% of made in china consumer goods will be tax taxed. >> still to come, a better bay area includes the environment. >> the whales washing ashore, we're going to show you a group hard at work to get a better understanding of what's killing the giant mammals. >> i'm spencer christian. as another bright sunny day winds down we see clouds near the coast line. more sunny days coming our way and i'll have the accuweather forecast in just a minute as abc7 news at 4:00 continues.

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one of our focuses and our effort to build a better bay area is the environment. >> and as part of that, we want to explore deeper a troubling trend that is increasing the number of whales and sea animals washing ashore dead or starving. >> lucky for us in the bay area, we have the marine mammal center, the largest hospital center for marine mammals in the

world. renowned scientists are working to understand the problem. >> here is abc7 news reporter liz kreutz with a look at why this is happening, why it matters and what's being done to help. >> reporter: up and down the west coast, pacific gray whales are showing up dead or stranded at an alarming rate. >> another dead whale has washed up on a bay area shore. >> reporter: at the same time, sea lions and seals are washing up. malnourished and with diseases. to understand why this is happening and what's being done to help these animals, we drove into the hills of sausalito to the marine mammal center, the world's largest hospital for marine mammals where many of these animals get treated. volunteers were there doing morning feeds, giving the animals fish filled with medication. >> is that okay with you? >> okay. go with me. we're seeing whales washing up, sea lions washing up. a lot of people are wondering what's going on. >> it's a great question. the last five years, we've seen a big uptick in the number of

patients every year. historically we would see 6 to 800 animals. the last five years we've seen at least 800 patients per year. >> reporter: the simplest answer is the animals are starving, unable to find food. but why is where it gets more complex. >> the state of the ocean is definitely in peril. these animals are incredible sentinels for what's happening on the bigger broader picture. >> reporter: some of the patients respond well, others are set free. but others have more severe problems. we're on our way to the surgery wing of the hospital. this is where animals require extra care for pneumonia, infections, toxins get treated. inside doctors are preparing for procedures on two california sea lions. >> let's go ahead and take him. we're going to be taking x-rays are of his chest to see how well he responded to treatment. >> reporter: later a more complex surgery on one who has an infection in her left eye.

>> the best possible out come is to remove the eye. patients are able to survive well if they have one function ally. >> reporter: if this surgery seems impressive, it is. the marine center is a leading teaching hospital. the implements here are being taught and used around the world. after all, this is a global problem. >> the problems the animals come in with are an indicator of what is going on in the ocean. changes in cray variability, could chang in water temperature which is a change in climate activity. >> reporter: many animals are released back to the ocean health and i happy. a complicated fix to an even more complicated problem. >> if the animals aren't healthy from eating the food they normally eat, we eat that, too, so we run the risk of becoming sick from some of these things as well. but even every day to day little things can make a difference. reducing our use of plastics,

beach clean-ups, all these small things add up when you get hundreds or thousands of people involved. >> liz kreutz reporting. the marine mammal center is open to the public daily from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. admission is free. it's a great way for people of all ages to see these animals, learn about the problem, and how we can all help. >> all right. let's check on our weather. we're in a new month. >> we are. september is here and the weather is a okay. >> new weather pattern as well as new month. doppler 7, we have the same low pattern of clouds developing on the coast line under mainly sunny skies. it's cooling down. it's going to be mild overnight, clear skies inland, temperatures will be low 50s to low 60s. a little cooler near the coast where there will be more clouds and bit of a breeze. tomorrow look for sunny and warm day with high temperatures in te upper 80s, i should say, but low 90s in the inland east bay right around the bay shoreline upper 70s to low 80s and mid to upper 60s on the coast. and here's the accuweather

seven-day forecast. it will start cooling down a bit more on wednesday and thursday. then we'll have sort of a steady pattern thursday through the weekend into early next week. inland highs upper 80s to near 90. around the bay shoreline mid to upper 70s. and on the coast mid 60s all the way through. very little variation. >> all right, thank you, spencer. >> a sure sign of fall is coming we have doughnuts. wait until you hear what they are glazed with and what's inside them. >> i can't wait. >> i know. >> a story out of san francisco, a woman has befriended some crows. wait until you hear how the birds thank her for the food she gives them. >> i'm 7 on your side's michael finney. it is never too soon to jump on your holiday travel oh! oh! oh! ♪ ozempic®! ♪ (announcer) people with type 2 diabetes are excited about the potential of once-weekly ozempic®. in a study with ozempic®, a majority of adults lowered their blood sugar and reached an a1c of less than 7 and maintained it. oh! under 7? (announcer) and you may lose weight. in the same one-year study,

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>> a bay area woman has made some unusual friends. take a look. >> i'm wayne freedman outside of san francisco's fire scape where we're waiting for crows to appear. what's unusual about that? they come bearing gifts. >> and kristen is here with what's coming up. kristen. >> thanks, dan and ama. we are following the boat fire off santa cruz island. you'll hear from the bay area man who organizes dives and has been on the boat that caught fire. also why san francisco is shutting its famous cable cars and what that will mean to the tourists who love them. and the people making the bay area more beautiful one utility box at a time. those storie and more when i join dan for abc7 news at 5:00.

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♪ help! i need somebody ♪ help! not just anybody ♪ help! you know i need someone coming up tonight on abc7 at 8:00 it's bachelor in paradise. at 10:00 grand hotel followed by abc7 news at 11:00. from san francisco tonight, a twist on the truism it's better to give nor than we receive. and how when we do, those gifts tend to come back. abc7 news reporter wayne freedman found the most unlikely of partners. >> reporter: these are the scenes that come to mind, people and pets, but nature? not often until we look above at who might be peering back down. >> we have sort of rules established. >> reporter: me lynda green is a retired computer programmer who

spends considerable time at her apartment window or on her couch looking out that window w5i9ing f waiting for her daily visitors. she will not need to call them for long. did you work on that? >> i did. >> reporter: we are three years into melinda's relationships with two or three families of crows. when they open the blinds they'll find treats on the fire scape and on the window sill. did you train them or did they train you? >> it's mutual. >> reporter: at this point you're probably thinking a lot of people feed the birds outside their homes. but how often do the birds reciprocate? in melinda's case they do. the evidence is right here. this was the first item. >> first thing was a little foil top from a champagne bottle. >> reporter: next the crows left assorted rocks and gum i bears. crows have been known to show this kind of behavior before. >> i think they feel some affection for all the food. >> reporter: in a word, gifts.

how else can linda explain this elaborate token left in the very same place where she puts the treats? >> it's an old piece of ancient electronics. >> reporter: do you feel honored? >> i do. >> reporter: who wouldn't? proof again of how when we give with tend to get back ten fold. one woman in an apartment in the city, coexisting. what do you think they add to your life? >> they're friends. >> reporter: in san francisco wayne freedman, abc7 news. >> what a story. all right. you can get the latest news any time with the abc7 news app, it has enhanced live video features. there's a lot more customization and push alerts to get more of the news you want delivered to your phone in real time. that's going to do it for this edition of abc7 news at 4:00. thank you so much for joining us today. i'm ama daetz. abc7 news at 5:00 starts now. >> roger, there's 33 people on board the vessel on fire and they can't get off. roger, are they locked inside

the boat? >> a dive boat catches fire with 39 people on board off the southern california coast. as many as 30 people are missing. >> also this slow-motion disaster that's moving through the bahamas, officials calling it destructive and unprecedented. we're tracking the hurricane as it moves west. >> bart crews working on a repair emergency knocked down power lines. how that caused major traffic delays in the east bay. >> and one man's battle with wild pigs. the solution he hopes will save his lawn. and the pigs, too. >> announcer: now news to build a better bay area from abc7. >> i think this is an event of global proportions. >> a bay area scuba diver has been on the boat that caught fire, telling abc7 news what this means for the diving community as search crews keep looking for two dozen people missing. good evening. i'm dan ashley. >> and i'm kristen sze. thanks for joining us. well, the coast guard is now saying the bodies of two men and also two women have been

recovered. another 30 people are still missing. >> yeah, the 75 foot commercial diving boat or conception, it's called, erupted into flames off santa cruz island at 3:30 this morning. crech are still scouring the island's coast line tonight for survivors. >> the santa barbara county sheriff delivered an update just in the last hour. >> four victims have been recoverehus as deceased. they have been transported to our coroner's bureau. we can only identify them at this point as two adult males and two adult females. rescue and recovery efforts on the scene have located an additional four victims on the ocean floor in close proximity to the vessel. and we have dive teams that are in the water as we speak that are working to attempt recovery of their remains. >> we will search all the way through the night into the morning, but i think we